Saturday, June 8, 2013

I would like to preface this post saying that I am not a
member of any OTO or Thelema related body.My opinion comes from personal reading of the subject, and so I speak
from that basis.

Thelema, as I have come to understand it, is very compatible
with Faery in general. My training that
led up to initiation was geared toward strengthening and developing my
connection to my own God Soul, or my own Holy Guardian Angel.By opening that communication, by bringing
myself into alignment with all my parts, I have tried to seek out my True Will,
that which is my Great Work and purpose.When that communication is made, the communication between the part of
the self that is God, and through that God Herself, what external law can
override “Do As Thou Wilt?”When I know
my True Will, and I don’t mean ego based desires, nothing can come in between
me and my Great Work.

But how do we know if what we are experiencing is our
Great Work?How do we differentiate
between Talker only desire and the communicated goals of our personal Holy
Trinity made one?

Will alone is only half of the Law, only half of the
equation that is our shared reality.Will
is the manifest God at work, the Masculine Principle, and I am not referring to
a physical gender.It is Yang, White,
Movement, Electric, Kinetic, or whatever term the individual has linked to this
aspect of the Divine Twins.The problem
with Will alone is that there must be balance.In Faery lore we would talk about the Blue God out of the influence of
the Goddess, and at those times he is terrible.He is the embodiment of base desire without consideration for the
consequences.I think we can simply look
around at the world around us and see the reality of this story.The Goddess has been removed from our
spirituality, and so corruption reigns.But fear not!

The second half of the Sacred Law is Love!When we are aligned and in communion with our
Godsoul, the Love of the Goddess flows through us, side by side with the Will
of God.When I am whole in all my Parts,
and the Love and Sacred Compassion fills me so that my Black Heart overflows,
the purpose of my Will becomes clear.Not only am I the embodied Blue God in action of Will, but I am the Love
of the Mother, and in this balance of the Twins, in this Sacred Dance I am
whole!

Do as the REAL YOU Wills!Love as the REAL YOU Loves!

I don’t mean to imply that the Talker space we generally
inhabit most of the time is a complete illusion, but rather a partial
reality.In order to know the Real You,
you have to bring everything into the fold.

Crowley said that we are witnessing the birth of a new aeon,
what he called the Aeon of Horus, but what in a Faery context I would call the
Aeon of Melek Taus.In my lineage, the
Melek Taus aspect of the overall godhead that we call the Blue God is the
complete balance of the Divine Twins.This model breaks down slightly when we bring the Goddess into the
equation of the Twins, but Faery is paradox, and the totality of one Twin
exists at all times within the body of the other.The Divine Twins are the dance of the holy
binary nature of reality in action.We
are entering the age of balance, of Will and Love existing together, bringing
out the best of both, and tempering away the negative aspects of either.Everywhere around us, more and more people
are waking up to the spiritual reality that coexists side by side with the
physical.More and more people
experience Gnosis within their religion, and when that happens, you realize
that the outer forms that we connect to simply speak to a greater spiritual
truth that can’t be contained within one religion.The old Aeon is fighting back, but only because
they see the writing on the wall.

But an Aeon is much longer than a single lifetime, and we
are just seeing the beginning.We may
not get to see the balance in this temporal incarnation, but we are all faces
of God Herself, and so as we grow and heal ourselves, we heal the world around
us.Gandhi said “Be the change you want
to see in the world,” and this is a spiritual truth.When we bring balance to our own lives, when
we are kala and let our Love and our Light spill out into the world around us,
healing happens.

Today we all have a choice.Do I want to continue living in the old patriarchal
world view?Do I want to be will out of
balance?Do I want to continue the cycle
of damage and trauma that was our birthright?Or do I want to embrace Love and transcend both matriarchy and
patriarchy?To embody both, to BE Melek
Taus, so I can heal myself and those around me.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Kala is, in my opinion, one of the most important concepts for the early student to understand and embrace. The word Kala itself can be used to convey multiple ideas within the Tradition. The first meaning is related to the state of being. To be Kala is to be completely clean within yourself. This is an ultimate state of perfection that we strive for; to be completely unburdened by complexes a...nd blocks so that our three Souls can be in total alignment and we can shine brightly.

The next way that the term gets used is as the techniques that different lineages use to try and attain this state. The Kala Rite, or Making Kala, can and is done in a myriad of different ways, depending on one’s lineage and/or intention. One simple way is to charge a glass of water with mana, and the intention to become pure, and then to drink that water down. To a Catholic, this might seem sacrilegious, because we are basically drinking the Holy Water that we blessed ourselves, but when you look at how much of your body is water, why wouldn’t you wish to drink it? As this water leaves your stomach it becomes part of your overall water system, spreading that blessing throughout your whole body. The last phase is when you urinate next, where impurities that block your connection to spirit are purged with the rest of the toxins you expel. As most of the Feri folk I know tend to be a jovial bunch, when hanging out together we will announce our need to use the restroom by saying “I need to go finish my Kala.”

The Kala Rite is not intended to be something you do once and then you are forever clean and in the Kala state. I wish that were the case, but the reality around us tends to lend itself toward the creation of blockages within the energy body. We pick up lots of toxins as we go through our day, both physically and psychically. Some lines of Feri refer to the Fetch as the “sticky one”, because well, it grabs onto things and has a hard time letting go. Be it the anger someone sent at you because of their own road rage, or any damaging thoughts and emotions that you have yourself, when we are out in the world, outside of the Circle, outside of meditation, you get dirty. And just like we shower or bathe to keep our physical body clean, so we make Kala to keep our spiritual body just as clean.

I also want to point out that this, like many other somewhat abstract Feri concepts, is an ultimate ideal. It is something we strive for, so that in the actions we get closer to the level of perfection that we crave, but is unrealistic to expect to be 100% Kala at all times. I can safely say I have never met a single individual who was always perfectly Kala. The end goal is not the point, the point is the journey there, and it is a journey that will go beyond this single lifetime.